Commercial Digest, a once a week digest of messages containing
informational content from commercial bodies (i.e., publishers, vendors,
agents, etc.)

This week's digest contains 6 messages:
1) Important Brand Changes affecting Continuum, Berg and Bristol
Classical Press
2) Project MUSE News: Join us for ALA Midwinter User Group!
3) ACCUCOMS launches user interaction program for Elsevier
4) Edward Elgar to preserve e-journals and e-books with Portico
5) Content Announcement: Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be Indexed in
Serials Solutions Summon Service
6) Duke University Press e-Books Will Move to HighWire

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Message #1:

Subject: Important Brand Changes affecting Continuum, Berg and Bristol
Classical Press
From: Jennifer Howell <Jennifer.Howell@bloomsbury.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:55:43 +0000

Dear colleague,

In 2008, Bloomsbury began to build a world-class academic division. Our
portfolio now includes many lists: Continuum, T&T Clark, Berg
Publishers, Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Bristol Classical Press,
Fairchild Books, AVA, and our home-grown Bloomsbury Academic list. We
publish close to 1,100 high-quality books each year, with a particularly
large presence in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Visual Arts.

We are pleased to announce that in order to better serve our authors and
customers, we are bringing many of our lists under the global Bloomsbury
brand. As part of our well-known brand, these wide-ranging lists will
gain a global presence, close association with a range of best-selling
and highly-respected books and online platforms, and increased
visibility in the marketplace.

At the same time, many of our acquisitions have long, revered histories.
So we will continue to publish Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and T&T
Clark as imprints under the Bloomsbury umbrella.

The changes are as follows:

 From 1st September 2012:

- Continuum is rebranded as Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Academic imprint)

- T&T Clark is co-branded under Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury T&T Clark
imprint)

 From 1st January 2013:

- Berg Publishers, including journals, is rebranded as Bloomsbury (under
Bloomsbury Academic imprint)

- Bristol Classical Press is rebranded as Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury
Academic imprint)

- Arden Shakespeare is co-branded under Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury
Arden Shakespeare imprint)

- Methuen Drama is co-branded under Bloomsbury (under Bloomsbury Methuen
Drama imprint)

What implications does this have for series and standing orders?

Certain series names will change in line with the above. For example
Continuum Discourse will become Bloomsbury Discourse. Where this
happens, books published after 1st September 2012 will be in the
Bloomsbury Discourse series, while books published up to 31st August
2012 will stay in the Continuum Discourse series, though we will move
them over as and when the books are reprinted. Any standing orders will
carry across to the 'new' series.

What happens to my journals subscription?

You will continue to receive print/online subscriptions and renewals in
the same way as at present. You do not have to do anything.

What other changes are there?

In November we launched the academic part of the new Bloomsbury website.
This enables you to see our books, ebooks and digital product
information from one central website, grouped by subject area. It has a
specific area for librarians to learn more about, for example, major
reference works and collections. Note that journals will not join the
company site until early 2013, and will remain on the
www.bergjournals.com site until that point. For more information see
www.bloomsbury.com/academic.

Yours faithfully,

Jennifer Howell, Head of UK Academic Marketing

Kara Zavada, Head of US Academic, Professional, & Specialist Marketing

Jennifer Howell
Head of UK Academic Marketing
Bloomsbury
50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP
Reception: +44 (0)207 631 5600
Direct: +44 (0)207 631 5824
Email: jennifer.howell@bloomsbury.com
www.bloomsbury.com

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Message #2:

Subject: Project MUSE News: Join us for ALA Midwinter User Group!
From: "Melanie Schaffner" <melanie@muse.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: mbs@press.jhu.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:44:19 -0500 (EST)

New UPCC Books Acquisition Options; More Journal Content - Join MUSE at
ALA Midwinter to Learn More

Seats are still available for the Project MUSE User Group breakfast on
Saturday, January 26, at the American Library Association's Midwinter
Meeting in Seattle, Washington.

Enjoy a light breakfast with colleagues while we review what's new at MUSE
for 2013:

- New book collections, including Ecology & Evolution, and seven new Area
Studies collection
- Subscription options for new and backlist books
- Single-title book purchasing, forthcoming through our partnership with YBP
- Over 30 new journals joining MUSE this year, and more journals with
complete coverage from volume one/issue one

Details of the User Group Meeting:
Saturday, January 26
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Grand Hyatt Seattle
Leonesa I

To assist us with our planning, please RSVP for the meeting to
muse@press.jhu.edu. Libraries are welcome to send more than one
representative. Please note the number of representatives you expect to
have attending from your institution. Both prospective and current library
customers are welcome to attend.

If you cannot attend the User Group meeting please stop by the Project
MUSE booth, #609, in the Exhibit Hall. We look forward to meeting you and
answering your questions.

Thank you for your continued support of Project MUSE. See you in Seattle.

Melanie Schaffner
Director, Sales and Marketing
Project MUSE
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
P 410-516-3846
F 410-516-3846
mbs@press.jhu.edu
http://muse.jhu.edu
Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ProjectMUSE
Follow us on Twitter: @ProjectMUSE

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Message #3:

Subject: ACCUCOMS launches user interaction program for Elsevier
From: "Rian van Spaandonk" <rian@accucoms.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:38:23 +0100

ACCUCOMS Launches User Interaction Program for Elsevier

16 January 2013 | Leiden, Netherlands - From 2013, ACCUCOMS will train
Elsevier users in Turkey as part of a newly launched user interaction
program. The user interaction program trains researchers and librarians
in the use of Elsevier's scholarly tools and solutions, such as
ScienceDirect and Scopus.

In 2013, ACCUCOMS will organize user training sessions on behalf of
Elsevier at more than a hundred libraries and universities in Turkey as
a continuation of Elsevier's training support for universities over the
past years. Training sessions will show researchers how Elsevier's
various tools and solutions can benefit them and their research or studies.

"Since we believe that training existing customers will increase loyalty
and advocacy for our products, face-to-face trainings for our end-users
take precedence over other services," said Gamze Keskin, Customer
Development Manager at Elsevier. "We are very happy to be cooperating
with ACCUCOMS to create further awareness about Elsevier products and
services within the research and library community, train end-users and
stimulate usage. Our main ambition is to maintain the most efficient and
effective user experience to ensure that the contribution of our
solutions is beyond expectation and creates value for research workflows."

"The need for effective user training sessions became apparent to us
through our sales and marketing activities for publishers," said Pinar
Erzin, Managing Director at ACCUCOMS. "Trainings will be conducted by
dedicated trainers for the scientific community, who will also be
trained by Elsevier specialists. They will follow the original business
workflows in order to achieve the most efficient results. We are very
excited about this first user interaction program for Elsevier."

ABOUT ELSEVIER
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. The company works in
partnership with the global science and health communities to publish
more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to
20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and
Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect, Scopus,
Reaxys and SciVal. www.elsevier.com

ABOUT ACCUCOMS
ACCUCOMS is an independent provider of services to academic and
professional publishers around the world. Established in 2004, ACCUCOMS
now operates from the Netherlands, Turkey, Costa Rica, the USA, MENA and
India. ACCUCOMS' multilingual teams offer efficient and intelligent
representation, telemarketing and business intelligence services as well
as user interaction programs to clients that range from large publishing
houses to specialist society publishers. www.accucoms.com

CONTACT
Rian van Spaandonk
Publisher Sales & Marketing Executive
ACCUCOMS
T +31 88 4100 418
E rian@accucoms.com
W www.accucoms.com

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Message #4:

Subject: Edward Elgar to preserve e-journals and e-books with Portico
From: Marita LaMonica <Marita.LaMonica@ithaka.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:21:05 -0500

Edward Elgar to preserve e-journals and e-books with Portico
Portico is pleased to announce that Edward Elgar will preserve its
entire collection of e-journals and e-books with Portico.

"We are delighted to be partnering with Portico," said Tim Williams,
managing director, Edward Elgar Publishing. "We consulted widely with
librarians before developing Elgaronline, our new electronic book and
journal platform, to ensure we created a product that met library
requirements and was an easy acquisition decision. Digital preservation
is clearly an important component of the additional value that libraries
get when using publisher platforms and many of our largest customers
work closely with Portico."

Founded in 1986, Edward Elgar (http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/) is an
international family-run publisher in economics, finance, business and
management, law and public policy. Elgaronline will launch with more
than 2,000 monograph and reference book titles and a growing list of
journals. Elgar publishes more than 300 e-book titles each year.
Portico will act as a perpetual access mechanism for both Edward Elgar’s
e-journals and e-books.
ABOUT
The Portico archive is certified as a "trustworthy digital repository"
by the Center for Research Libraries; more than 15,000 e-journals, more
than 170,000 e-books, and 72 d-collections have been entrusted to it.
For a complete list of Portico-related facts and figures, please visit
Portico Archive Facts & Figures.

_____________
Marita La Monica
Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
ITHAKA
Tel: 212-358-6400
marita.lamonica@ithaka.org
ITHAKA (www.ithaka.org) is a not-for-profit organization that helps the
academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly
record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. We
provide innovative services that benefit higher education, including
Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, and Portico.

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Message #5:

Subject: Content Announcement: Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be
Indexed in Serials Solutions Summon Service
From: "Ahron, Brianna" <Brianna.Ahron@serialssolutions.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:22:49 -0500

Canadian Healthcare Journals to Be Indexed in Serials Solutions Summon
Service
January 17, 2013

Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, is working with Longwoods
Publishing to index its healthcare journals in the Summon® discovery
service. Most of the content is devoted to Canadian medical practice,
but some journals have an international focus. All of the publications
are a combination of free-access content such as columns and editorials,
and paid-access research articles.

Titles to be indexed in the Summon service include:

Healthcare Quarterly documents and disseminates leading practices in
health-service delivery and policy development.

Healthcare Papers reviews new models in healthcare, bridging the gap
between academia and the world of healthcare management and policy.

Healthcare Policy publicizes research relating to health policy
development and decision making, in spheres ranging from governance,
organization and service delivery to funding and resource allocation.

Electronic Healthcare explores best practices, policy and innovations in
e-models, e-practices and e-products for e-health, for improving
health-service delivery and policy development.

Nursing Leadership covers politics, policy, theory and innovations that
contribute to leadership in nursing administration, practice, teaching
and research.

World Health & Population publishes contributions by researchers, policy
makers and practitioners in developing countries and communities to
enable excellence in healthcare worldwide.

These resources are widely subscribed to by libraries. The addition of
the Longwoods journals in the Summon service is another mark of the
company’s commitment to delivering a better research experience.

Used by more than 500 libraries in more than 40 countries, the Summon
service is the first and only discovery service based on a unified index
of content. Proven to increase usage of library resources, the Summon
service consistently meets user expectations by delivering innovative
new features for enhancing discovery.

About Serials Solutions
Serials Solutions helps libraries work better by providing innovative,
practical Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for discovery and
management, driven by a comprehensive knowledgebase and unparalleled
client support services.

Media Contact: Christine Goetz, Public Relations Manager,
christine.goetz@serialssolutions.com.

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Message #6:

Subject: Duke University Press e-Books Will Move to HighWire
From: "Kim Steinle" <ksteinle@dukeupress.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:00:54 -0500

For immediate release
January 17, 2013

For more information, please contact
Leslie Eager, Exhibits and Direct Marketing
leslie.eager@dukeupress.edu

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS E-BOOKS WILL MOVE TO HIGHWIRE

Expanded Partnership Will Provide a New Home for the e-Duke Books
Scholarly Collection for a Seamless Research Experience across Books and
Journals

Duke University Press and HighWire Press are pleased to announce a major
expansion of their partnership to include the e-Duke Books Scholarly
Collection. Beginning with the 2014 collection, e-Duke Books, an annual
collection of at least 100 new electronic books published by Duke
University Press as well as more than 1,500 backlist titles, will move
to HighWire’s Open Platform and the newly developed Folio e-book solution.

With the launch of the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection on HighWire,
Duke University Press’s readers and library subscribers will benefit
from HighWire’s long record of innovation and reliability. The
integrated platform will connect users with content more effectively by
incorporating searching across all of Duke’s publications—not only
e-books but their highly ranked journals as well.

“HighWire has been a fabulous partner for us, ever since we moved our
electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences, including the
e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collections, to their platform in 2005,” said
Steve Cohn, Director of Duke University Press. “Above all, we are very
much looking forward to having our books and our journals on a single
platform, where we can provide a seamless research experience to users
and offer a variety of collections to libraries that include both book
and journal content together. We think that’s the way the world of
scholarly publishing needs to be moving, and we think HighWire will be
the ideal collaborator for helping us move in that direction with
integrity and creativity.”

Key features of the e-Duke Books collection on Folio will include a
device-friendly reading experience, viewable in PDF and mobile-optimized
e-reader formats; toll-free inter-content linked access to cited content
also hosted by HighWire, including journal articles from Duke, Oxford
University Press, and SAGE Publications; and increased content
granularity for better discovery, sharing, and navigating.

“The HighWire Open Platform provides Duke University Press with flexible
options to deliver reader experiences that are appropriate for their
content,” said Tom Rump, Managing Director at HighWire. “Our e-book
solutions enhance the versatility of the platform, offering Duke and
others the opportunity to integrate their multiple content types –
books, journals, figures, data, etc. – in one highly discoverable service.”

All e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection content will be available on the
new platform in December 2013. The current 2013 collection will be
unaffected by this change and will continue to be hosted by ebrary
through the end of this year. Throughout 2013, e-Duke Books customers
will receive frequent communications to ensure a smooth and timely
transition. Additional library transition resources, including a growing
list of FAQs, are now available at
dukeupress.edu/e-duke-books-platform-transition-resources.

For more information about the platform transition, please contact Duke
University Press Customer Service at edukebooks@dukeupress.edu.

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About Duke University Press
The Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and
has a growing collection in mathematics. It is an internationally
recognized publisher known for its willingness to take chances with
nontraditional and multidisciplinary publications. Duke University Press
supports the academic mission of Duke University by disseminating
knowledge through the publication of approximately 120 books annually
and 46 journals, as well as by offering five electronic collections.
dukeupress.edu

About HighWire
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press
provides the latest in digital content development and hosting solutions
to the scholarly community through its ground-breaking HighWire Open
Platform. A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire
partners with influential societies, university presses, and other
independent publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing, and
producing definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed
journals, books, reference works, and other scholarly content. Since its
inception in 1995, HighWire has embodied a commitment to helping
publishers disseminate their content to the widest possible audience,
facilitating the research communication process to meet the
ever-changing needs of today’s online and mobile readers.
highwire.stanford.edu
Twitter: @highwirepress

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